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Former President Bill Clinton honored Muhammad Ali as a man who took charge of his own destiny against the odds during a eulogy at the champion boxer’s memorial service Friday.

“He decided, very young, to write his own life story,” said Clinton. “He decided that he would not be ever disempowered.”

Clinton also gave the eulogy a personal touch, recalling several of his own memories of Ali, including the boxer’s lighting of the Olympic torch in 1996 and a humorous story of Ali putting rabbit ears behind the president during a speech.

“It is the choices that Mohammed Ali made that have brought us all here today in honor and love,” said Clinton.

Clinton capped a long list notable figures who spoke at the ceremony—from Bryant Gumbel to Billy Crystal—apparently chosen by Ali before his death last

Climate change contributed significantly to the likelihood of the flooding that inundated Paris and other European cities at the end of last month, according to a new analysis.

The research, conducted by scientists in the World Weather Attribution (WWA) partnership, found that the likelihood of a three-day extreme rainfall event had increased by 90% along the Loire River and 80% along the Seine. Results evaluating whether climate change increased the likelihood of rain in Germany were inconclusive, according to the report.

Climate scientists have worked in recent years to develop methods of quickly determining whether weather events can be tied to climate change. Areport released earlier this year from the National Academies of Science found that researchers could evaluate the effect of climate change on weather events closely tied to temperature like extreme heat and extreme cold. Drought and extreme rainfall can also be attributed accurately.

The WWA project is a collaboration between Climate Central and a slew of research institutions, including Oxford University and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.

(DALLAS) — A police officer shot and wounded a man Friday outside a Dallas airport after the man attacked a woman believed to be the mother of his children and then threatened the officer with a large rock, police said.

“There doesn’t appear to be any other weapon present than the rock,” Dallas Police Assistant Chief Randall Blakenbaker said.

Video posted by Instagram user @flashyfilms— and credited to Bryan Armstrong shows the commotion on the curb outside baggage claim at Dallas Love Field. Amid the sound of nine gunshots and an officer’s shouts to “get down,” some people scramble while others stand watching before officers order them back inside. Toward the end of the video, one officer is seen pointing his gun at someone near the glass exterior of the airport.

Light pollution prevents a third of the world’s population from seeing the Milky Way from their homes, according to new research.

Researchers behind the study, published in the journal Science Advances, found that 60% of Europeans and nearly 80% of North Americans cannot see the Milky Way.

Light pollution, most common in densely populated urban areas, is the result of the artificial light humans create to illuminate roads, buildings and neighborhoods. Nearly everyone who lives in the U.S. and Europe experiences some level of light pollution.

Fabio Falchi et al.—AAASNorth America in New World Atlas of Artificial Sky Brightness, as seen in Google Earth.

Paging all Cristina/Owen fans! On Friday, former Grey’s Anatomy star Sandra Oh tweeted a series of photos her evening out with her former costar, Kevin McKidd.

Oh hung up her scrubs as Dr. Cristina Yang back in 2014, but that hasn’t stopped her from having an opinion of the show’s recent developments. Dr. Yang’s ex-husband, McKidd’s Dr. Owen Hunt, married brain surgeon Dr. Amelia Shepherd (Caterina Scorsone) in last month’s season 12 finale — and Oh had something to say about it.

“My TV husband has a new TV wife?? Xqueez me? I don’t think so!” she joked. She quickly followed it up with another picture, sending some love to her pal (and fellow Canadian) Scorsone.

Hillary Clinton has raised a higher percentage of her campaign funds from women than any major party presidential candidate in recent history. She’s also raised a higher total in contributions from women than any other candidate at this point in the cycle.

And Donald Trump has the dubious honor of achieving the exact opposite: He has raised less from women than any other major party’s nominee at this point in the presidential cycle since at least 1989 (which is as far back as our data goes). Women have also given his campaign less as a share of total contributions than any White House candidate.

The stark difference between the two presidential front-runners’ fundraising bases highlights the role of gender in a race featuring both the country’s first woman ever to be a major party’s presumed nominee and a celebrity billionaire who repeatedly has made insulting comments about women.

Former President Bill Clinton honored Muhammad Ali as a man who took charge of his own destiny against the odds during a eulogy at the champion boxer’s memorial service Friday.

“He decided, very young, to write his own life story,” said Clinton. “He decided that he would not be ever disempowered.”

Clinton also gave the eulogy a personal touch, recalling several of his own memories of Ali, including the boxer’s lighting of the Olympic torch in 1996 and a humorous story of Ali putting rabbit ears behind the president during a speech.

“It is the choices that Mohammed Ali made that have brought us all here today in honor and love,” said Clinton.

Clinton capped a long list notable figures who spoke at the ceremony—from Bryant Gumbel to Billy Crystal—apparently chosen by Ali before his death last week.

The comedian brought some levity to the boxing legend’s memorial service

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Comedian Billy Crystal repeated his famous Muhammad Ali impression during a eulogy for the boxer Friday.“Everybody’s talking about George Foreman… George Foreman is ugly. He’s so slow,” Crystal said in his Ali voice. “I’m so fast I can turn off the lights and be in my bed before the room gets dark.”The impression brought a moment of levity to a series of speeches from a long list of notable figures including former President Bill Clinton apparently chosen by Ali before his death last week.“He decided, very young, to write his own life story,” said Clinton. “He decided that he would not be ever disempowered

Behind the Scenes With Muhammad Ali as He Trained to Fight Joe Frazier

“The Ali-Frazier fight story was certainly one of the more important stories in my life,” LIFE photographer recalls

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It was the battle of the champs, and not just according to LIFE Magazine’s headline: Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, two undefeated boxers, would meet head to head on March 8, 1971. Each would take home a whopping $2.5 million purse. Fans were eager for insight into the preparations so, for a LIFE cover story leading up to the bout, both men—the disciplined Frazier and the loose Ali—gave the magazine’s reporters and photographers extensive access to their lives during training.

Which is where John Shearer came in. The photographer, then a young LIFE staffer, had met and photographed Ali before—but the lead-up to the 1971 fight was, he later recalled, something different. In October of 2014, Shearer sat down to talk to LIFE about his career, and that assignment.

“The Ali-Frazier fight story was certainly one of the more important stories in my life,” he recalled.

Ali had been away from the sport of boxing for three years, having lost his license over his refusal to fight in Vietnam. Fans worried he was rushing into his comeback, that he was out of shape, that he had lost his speed. (As the editor’s note in the issue mentioned, Shearer—who had spent weeks with both fighters—guessed that Frazier would win in 10 rounds.) But that didn’t mean that plenty of people weren’t rooting for Ali.

“He was the man. He was back,” Shearer said in 2014. “You know, they expected him to win. And so there was a lot of pressure.“

MORE: See Shearer’s Photographs From the Fight

Being Ali meant being “on” all the time, Shearer learned. Though he said that he felt able to gain real insight into Frazier’s life, with Ali he was always seeing the public persona. “Muhammad Ali, while I was with him, you know, every day, all day long, I didn’t get invited back into his home,” Shearer said. There might be glimpses of the introspective man behind the celebrity face, but Shearer didn’t feel he was eager to share that side of himself.

That situation didn’t change after the fight. Frazier won.

After, Shearer didn’t have the heart to go into Ali’s dressing room, the photographer recalled. He had known from the moment in the fight when Ali went down for a moment that Frazier would win. And, he said, he could see that Ali knew too. That look on Ali’s face was too much to take. So LIFE staffer Gordon Parks went in the loser’s room instead. (Parks and Shearer share more than an assignment: Parks was the magazine’s first African-American staff photographer and Shearer was the second.) Shearer stuck with Frazier, capturing images of the winner celebrating while looking, as the photographer puts it, “beaten pillar to post” but happy.

Though Ali would come back, and swinging, that pit-of-the-stomach sadness was a similar feeling to one the photographer would feel much later, seeing Ali as disease ravaged the boxer, who died last week. Seeing a man who is down can hurt more when you know what the man looked like at his best. And John Shearer saw better than most what Ali had been.

“You know, he was not perfect. No one’s perfect,” the photographer said. “But he was great.”